Buckley Law Attorneys

James C. Buckley

I have been an attorney for over 30 years. I am the owner and supervising attorney at Buckley & Associates. I personally train and work with every attorney at Buckley & Associates. I have a monthly meeting with all the attorneys at Buckley & Associates and go over all of their cases. We also roundtable the larger cases to get all of our attorneys’ input on the cases. I love my job and love working with all the clients, attorneys, paralegals, and staff at Buckley & Associates. I especially enjoy working with my daughter who is also an attorney with Buckley & Associates. She has received various awards since joining the office. She has become one of the top trial attorneys at Buckley & Associates. Read more

Erica Buckley

Erica Buckley is the President and CEO of Buckley & Associates. Her practice is entirely personal injury and wrongful death litigation. Erica enjoys representing a diverse clientele in trials and arbitrations and recently argued a case at the Court of Appeals. In her years of practice at Buckley & Associates she has successfully resolved over 250 injury and wrongful death cases and has recovered millions of dollars for clients. Erica has earned employee of the year honors and was recently awarded attorney of the year, which is awarded to the Buckley & Associates attorney with the largest single jury verdict of the year. Read more

Edward J. Hemingway

Edward J. Hemingway joined Buckley & Associates in 1998. He serves as a litigation attorney mediating, arbitrating and trying personal injury cases ranging from low impact motor vehicle collisions to injuries from tractor-trailer and high speed collisions, wrongful death actions, plane crashes and slip-trip-and-falls as well as other types of personal injury actions. Mr. Hemingway is a member of the Washington State Bar Association, Washington State Association for Justice, and the Eastern and Western Washington Federal District Courts. He serves as an arbitrator for personal injury cases through the King County Superior Court Arbitration System. He has successfully recovered millions of dollars for clients of Buckley & Associates. Read more

Christine Kim

Christine Kim was born in Seoul, Korea and came to the U.S.A. in 1986. Christine later studied at and graduated from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea and worked for LG Corporation also in Seoul, Korea. Christine returned to the Northwest and began her legal career at Buckley and Associates in 1999 as a case manager, and later a legal assistant. Inspired by her mentor, Mr. James Buckley, giving voice to individuals that could not be ignored in their fights against the insurance industries, Christine followed in Mr. Buckley’s footsteps and earned her Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Oregon School of Law. While in law school, she served as a senior editor for the Oregon Review of International Law, a member of the Moot Court Board, and a judicial extern for the Honorable John V. Acosta, United States District Court, District of Oregon. Read more

Ronald Unger

Mr. Unger handles wrongful death and major injury cases for the firm. He was raised in the Seattle area and attended 2 years at the University of Washington before transferring to UCLA. After obtaining an undergraduate degree at UCLA in 1981, he worked for two years in the Recreation and Parks Department for the City of Beverly Hills. He then returned to UCLA, where he graduated from their law school in 1986. Read more